The great virtue of this volume is that it reveals a lighter, comic side of Sade. He was a man obsessed, like many great writers, and his obsessions are still present here: his hatred of all things pretentious, his loathing of a corrupt judicial system, his damning of hypocrisy and false piety. One of the great anarchists of all time, he was nevertheless far from mad (as many pretended) and these works of fiction shed another light on this most feverish of minds. But however heavy the subject, The Mystified Magistrate is infused with a light touch; it is revealing but never offensive.
- ISBN10 1559705795
- ISBN13 9781559705790
- Publish Date 1 May 2001 (first published 28 February 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 31 December 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Little, Brown & Company
- Imprint Little, Brown and Company
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 240
- Language English